Big changes often seem to move forward painfully slowly, while the most sweeping of them get triggered by steps no one thought very consequential. It is especially true of the policies of the European Union with its notoriously cumbersome decision-making procedures and contradictory interests. Could the energy union be its next big thing? […]
On Friday, the Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States, Žygimantas Pavilionis, hosted a large group of teachers who played an important role in education during the last 25 years that followed Lithuania regaining independence. Aimed to contribute to a then fledging Lithuanian educational system, APPLE was set up as an organisation in 1990 by American teachers, many with strong ties to Lithuania. Many of the teachers attending the 25th anniversary travelled from distant parts of the USA and even Canada to celebrate the success of this unique venture. […]
The Lithuanian Labor Party decided on Sunday that its education and science minister, Dainius Pavalkis, Would have to leave the post. […]
Deputy Speaker of the Seimas Irena Degutienė has addressed Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius regarding the reconstruction of Lukiškės Square in Vilnius. She has urged to complete the square’s reconstruction before celebrating the centenary of Lithuania’s statehood in 2018. […]
More people visited Lithuanian museums and theatres in 2014, as compared to earlier years, while the number people going to libraries and cinema theatres is virtually unchanged, the Statistics Department said on Friday. […]
Lithuania is getting ready to take over in May the presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council responsible for preserving international peace and security. […]
The Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), Lithuania’s largest opposition party, on Saturday elected Gabrielius Landsbergis to lead the party for the next two years. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Saturday expressed her condolences to her Nepalese counterpart after a powerful earthquake struck the country, killing almost 500 people and injuring hundreds more. […]
The headquarters of a new motorized infantry brigade will be situated in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda in 2016, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. It will be a second brigade in the Lithuanian army. […]
A Lithuanian child taken away from his foster carers in Norway and secretly driven to Lithuania and his mother will not be handed over to Norway, a spokesman for the Police Department said. […]
The traditional clean-up campaign Darom 2015 (Let’s Do It 2015) is held in Lithuania on Saturday. […]
A Russian media outlet has refused to publish an article written by EU Ambassador to Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas, who uses the term “Crimea‘s unlawful annexation”, fearing possible repressions from the Russian government. […]
Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has received a confirmation from Brazil‘s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply regarding a permit to export Lithuanian cheese Džiugas to Brazil. […]
Lithuania’s Judicial Council has decided that a disciplinary case will be opened against judge Egidijus Žironas, the chairman of the Court of Appeal of Lithuania, because a group of judges of his court recently had a dinner at businessman Algimantas Radvilas’ restaurant. […]
The structure of Lithuania’s economy has clearly changed over the last two decades, an economist says. […]
Global politics is undermining the international solidarity of the biker community. Lithuanian bikers have declared they do not want to see members of the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves MC, including its leader Alexander Zaldostanov, in their country, because the Russians have trampled on a central principle of the biker movement – stay away from politics. […]
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